Kenneth (or whoever can answer this), did you get the "cat, dog, horse"
effect simply by using left and right tabs, or did you use spaces also? I
tried to duplicate what you did and each word didn't move over by one space
as did yours.
Hi Sheana,
What you saw in your newsreader was not done with Word. I
was merely trying to show you what Word would display if you
were to set up such tabs in Word.
That said, in Word:
Click Format | Tabs and enter a tab at 1" (with the Left
version chosen with the radio buttons below.
Then, add another tab at 3" (with the Right version chosen
with the radio buttons below.)
Click OK to get out of the tab setting dialog, (and set the
tabs you have just created.
Then, with a blank doc visible:
Touch the tab key. (The cursor should jump to the right 1".)
Type XXXXXXX.
Touch the tab key again (and the cursor should jump 3" to
the right.
Type OOOOOOOOOO.
Touch Enter (to get to the next line.)
Touch the Tab key.
Type XXX.
Touch the Tab Key.
Type OOO.
At that point, your screen should look like this:
XXXXXXX OOOOOOOOOO
XXX OOO
The first Tab (at 1") aligns the text to the left, and the
second tab (at 3") aligns the text to the right.
If you keep typing in the fashion I described, you will soon
have two columns aligned in that way.
Using that approach, you can align columns to the left, the
right, or on decimals etc.
That last type of tab would produce a column looking like
this:
12345.678
1.23
.123
543.21
I hope that this is of help to you,